Comparison with MongoDB

Percona Backup for MongoDB is a fully supported community backup solution that can perform cluster-wide consistent backups in MongoDB. The following table compares Percona Backup for MongoDB with the MongoDB backup solutions:

Feature name	Percona Backup for MongoDB	MongoDB Community mongodump	MongoDB Enterprise	MongoDB Atlas
Open source software	Yes	No	No	No
Sharded cluster backups and restores supported	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Binary database export (logical backup)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Selective backup (logical)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Built-in point-in-time recovery support	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Physical backup	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Incremental backup (physical)	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Backup management interfaces	Percona Backup for MongoDB (CLI) PMM mongodump / mongorestore (CLI)	- - mongodump / mongorestore (CLI)	Ops Manager Cloud Manager mongodump / mongorestore (CLI)	Atlas backups mongodump / mongorestore (CLI)
Multiple storages for backups	Yes	No	No	No

What you get with Percona Backup for MongoDB

• Enterprise features without extra costs
• Works for both sharded clusters and non-sharded replica sets
• Simple command-line management utility. For backup management via a user interface, consider using PBM through Percona Monitoring and Management
• Simple, integrated-with-MongoDB authentication
• Distributed transaction consistency with MongoDB 4.2+
• Compatibility with different storage types: S3-compatible storage, Microsoft Azure Blob storage, filesystem storage type for locally-mounted remote filesystem backup servers

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Last update: July 16, 2025
Created: July 16, 2025